Corner states of light in photonic waveguides

A El Hassan, FK Kunst, A Moritz, G Andler… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The recently established paradigm of higher-order topological states of matter has shown
that not only edge and surface states, but also states localized to corners, can have robust …

Non-Hermitian extensions of higher-order topological phases and their biorthogonal bulk-boundary correspondence

E Edvardsson, FK Kunst, EJ Bergholtz - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, which describe a wide range of dissipative systems, and
higher-order topological phases, which exhibit novel boundary states on corners and …

Non-Hermitian systems and topology: A transfer-matrix perspective

FK Kunst, V Dwivedi - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Topological phases of Hermitian systems are known to exhibit intriguing properties such as
the presence of robust boundary states and the famed bulk-boundary correspondence …

Quantum superposition demonstrated higher-order topological bound states in the continuum

Y Wang, BY **e, YH Lu, YJ Chang, HF Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
Higher-order topological insulators, as newly found non-trivial materials and structures,
possess topological phases beyond the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence. In …

Corner modes of the breathing kagome lattice: Origin and robustness

MAJ Herrera, SN Kempkes, MB De Paz… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
We study the non-trivial phase of the two-dimensional breathing kagome lattice, displaying
both edge and corner modes. The corner localized modes of a two-dimensional flake were …

Dissipative boundary state preparation

F Yang, P Molignini, EJ Bergholtz - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
We devise a generic and experimentally accessible recipe to prepare boundary states of
topological or nontopological quantum systems through an interplay between coherent …

Topological Properties of a Non‐Hermitian Quasi‐1D Chain with a Flat Band

C Martínez‐Strasser, MAJ Herrera… - Advanced Quantum …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The spectral properties of a non‐Hermitian quasi‐1D lattice in two of the possible
dimerization configurations are investigated. Specifically, it focuses on a non‐Hermitian …

Berry phase for higher-order symmetry-protected topological phases

H Araki, T Mizoguchi, Y Hatsugai - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
We propose the ZQ Berry phase as a topological invariant for higher-order symmetry-
protected topological (HOSPT) phases for two-and three-dimensional systems. It is …

Degeneration of topological corner, hinge, and surface states in three-dimensional photonic crystals

X Li, G Rui, J He, B Gu - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The third-order topological insulators based on three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystals
(PCs) have hardly been achieved because the nontrivial bandgap in 3D PCs is difficult to …